Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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![]() Paris La Défense Arena after it was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events | |||||||||||||
Venue | Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
Dates | 27 July 2024 (heats and semifinals) 28 July 2024 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 36 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 59.03 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Freestyle | |||
50 m | men | women | |
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
800 m | men | women | |
1500 m | men | women | |
Backstroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Breaststroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Butterfly | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Individual medley | |||
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
Freestyle relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | women | |
Medley relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
Marathon | |||
10 km | men | women | |
The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events. [1] Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
Great Britain's defending Olympic champion Adam Peaty had taken a break from swimming and suffered a broken foot since his win at the 2020 Olympics. Nonetheless, he won bronze at the 2024 World Championships and registered the second fastest Olympic qualifying time of 57.94 at the 2024 British National Championships. China's Qin Haiyang had the fastest qualifying time of 57.69, which won him the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships. [2]
Other competitors included Italian Nicolò Martinenghi, who won bronze at the previous Olympics and won gold at the 2022 World Championships; Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands, who won silver at the previous Olympics; and Nic Fink of the United States, who won the event at the 2022 World Short Course Championships and at the 2024 World Championships. [2] Martinenghi, Kamminga and Fink all tied for silver at the 2023 World Championships. [3]
Both SwimSwam and Swimming World predicted Haiyang would win gold and Peaty would take second. SwimSwam predicted Fink would take third, while Swimming World predicted it would be Martinenghi. [2] [4]
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). [5] For this event, the OQT was 59.49 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. [5] [6] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 59.79 for this event. [5] In total, 21 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 15 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT. [6]
Swimmer | Country | Time | Competition |
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Qin Haiyang | ![]() | 57:69 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships |
Adam Peaty | ![]() | 57:94 | 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships |
Nic Fink | ![]() | 58:36 | 2023 United States National Championships |
Arno Kamminga | ![]() | 58:68 | 2023 World Aquatics World Cup |
Nicolò Martinenghi | ![]() | 58:72 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships |
Evgenii Somov | ![]() | 58:72 | 2024 Atlanta Classic |
Sun Jiajun | ![]() | 58:73 | 2024 Chinese Championships |
Lucas Matzerath | ![]() | 58:74 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships |
Sam Williamson | ![]() | 58:80 | 2024 Australian Olympic Trials |
Melvin Imoudu | ![]() | 59:07 | 2024 Eindhoven Qualification Meet |
Five heats took place on 2 August 2024, starting at 11:00. [a] [7] The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. [8]
Two semifinals took place on 27 July, starting at 21:12. [10] The swimmers with the best eight times in the semifinals advanced to the final. [8]
Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | 4 | Adam Peaty | ![]() | 58.86 | Q |
2 | 2 | 2 | Qin Haiyang | ![]() | 58.93 | Q |
3 | 2 | 3 | Arno Kamminga | ![]() | 59.12 | Q |
4 | 1 | 2 | Nic Fink | ![]() | 59.16 | Q |
5 | 2 | 4 | Caspar Corbeau | ![]() | 59.24 | Q |
6 | 1 | 5 | Nicolò Martinenghi | ![]() | 59.28 | Q |
7 | 1 | 6 | Lucas Matzerath | ![]() | 59.31 | Q |
8 | 2 | 6 | Melvin Imoudu | ![]() | 59.38 | QSO |
2 | 8 | Ludovico Blu Art Viberti | ![]() | 59.38 | QSO | |
10 | 2 | 5 | Ilya Shymanovich | ![]() | 59.45 | |
11 | 1 | 3 | James Wilby | ![]() | 59.49 | |
12 | 1 | 7 | Joshua Yong | ![]() | 59.64 | |
13 | 2 | 1 | Evgenii Somov | ![]() | 1:00.00 | |
14 | 1 | 1 | Charlie Swanson | ![]() | 1:00.16 | |
15 | 2 | 7 | Bernhard Reitshammer | ![]() | 1:00.18 | |
16 | 1 | 8 | Ron Polonsky | ![]() | 1:00.37 |
The swim-off took place at 22:24 on 27 July. [11]
Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Melvin Imoudu | ![]() | 59.69 | Q |
2 | 5 | Ludovico Blu Art Viberti | ![]() | 59.90 |
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The final took place at 21:44 on 28 July. [12]
Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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![]() | 7 | Nicolò Martinenghi | ![]() | 59.03 | |
![]() | 4 | Adam Peaty | ![]() | 59.05 | |
6 | Nic Fink | ![]() | 59.05 | ||
4 | 8 | Melvin Imoudu | ![]() | 59.11 | |
5 | 1 | Lucas Matzerath | ![]() | 59.30 | |
6 | 3 | Arno Kamminga | ![]() | 59.32 | |
7 | 5 | Qin Haiyang | ![]() | 59.50 | |
8 | 2 | Caspar Corbeau | ![]() | 59.98 |
Name | 15 metre split (s) | 50 metre split (s) | 50–65 metre split (s) | Time (s) | Stroke rate (strokes/min) |
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Nicolò Martinenghi | 6.22 | 27.34 | 8.78 | 59.03 | 55.8 |
Adam Peaty | 6.40 | 27.08 | 9.04 | 59.05 | 55.6 |
Nic Fink | 5.96 | 27.45 | 8.85 | 59.05 | 49.4 |
Melvin Imoudu | 6.46 | 27.37 | 9.27 | 59.11 | 49.7 |
Lucas Matzerath | 6.48 | 27.56 | 8.94 | 59.30 | 55.7 |
Arno Kamminga | 6.43 | 27.94 | 8.80 | 59.32 | 46.2 |
Qin Haiyang | 6.14 | 27.03 | 9.23 | 59.50 | 53.0 |
Caspar Corbeau | 6.18 | 27.91 | 8.78 | 59.98 | 45.3 |